Is Obiter legal advice?

No, Obiter is a study platform for law students. It helps you learn and revise the law; it doesn't advise on real-world legal problems.

Which qualifications does it cover?

The LLB, GDL/PGDL and SQE preparation, with module coverage across core UK subjects.

What does the Core tier actually include?

Core includes the dashboard, calendar, timer, manual flashcards, statute search, Legal News, My Files, My Grades and References. Lifetime allowances include five cases, five concepts, one MCQ test, one essay model answer and one saved library set. Career Hub and Study Guide are browsable; storage is limited to 100 MB.

Does the AI make things up?

Obiter AI answers from the Obiter library of UK law, including over 4,000 case briefs, rather than from memory, and shows the sources behind each answer. It can still make mistakes, so check the primary authority before relying on an answer.

How it works

How Obiter works.

Obiter is a study platform for UK law students, built on a curated database of real cases, live legislation, and the practice tools you need to revise. Case briefs carry their citations, so you can check the primary authority before you cite it.

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Built on real
UK legal material.

10,000+UK & EU case briefs and legal concepts

Livestatutes seeded from legislation.gov.uk

Obiter is a single workspace for everything a UK law student actually does: revising cases, looking up statutes, practising MCQs and essays, tracking modules and deadlines. The point is to put the materials and the tools in one place so you can spend your time studying instead of switching between five tabs.

Obiter draws from a library of over 10,000 UK and EU law case briefs and legal concepts. Each case brief carries the citation, the facts, the ratio and a one-line holding. A brief is a study summary, so check the judgment before relying on it. Statutes are seeded live from legislation.gov.uk, so the section you read on Obiter is the section currently in force, with amendments applied.

AI features sit on top of this database, not in front of it. When Obiter AI answers a question, when flashcards generate, when an essay prompt produces a model response, all of it draws on the library described above.

The approach

How Obiter stays grounded.

Three layers between
you and a wrong answer.

Case library

Case briefs of UK judgments. Each brief gives the citation, facts, ratio and a one-line holding. A brief is a study summary, so check the judgment itself, on BAILII or the National Archives, before relying on it.

Rules out: case names and citations recalled from memory.

Live legislation

UK statutes are pulled directly from legislation.gov.uk, the government's authoritative source. When you look up a section of the Human Rights Act, you're reading the real section, current wording, amendments applied.

Rules out: outdated language and repealed sections rendered as current.

AI grounded in that database

Obiter AI is retrieval-augmented: before answering, it pulls the relevant entries from the Obiter library and writes its response from those. If something isn't there, it says so instead of inventing it, and every answer shows its sources inline.

Rules out: confident fabrications and unsourced claims.

In practice

What this means when you're revising.

"What did Lord Atkin say in Donoghue v Stevenson?"

✗A generic chatbot may paraphrase the neighbour principle, or invent a supporting quote.

✓Obiter pulls the real Donoghue entry, shows the ratio, and links to the judgment.

"Is section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 still in force?"

✗A generic chatbot answers from its training data, and may miss amendments.

✓Obiter returns the live text from legislation.gov.uk with its current in-force status.

"Give me a case where a contract was frustrated by government action."

✗A generic chatbot may invent a case name that sounds plausible.

✓Obiter returns cases from its library, or tells you it can't find one.

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